Figures of Speech
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1. Alliteration
The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
Example: Sally sells seashells.
2. Allusion
The act of alluding is to make indirect reference. It is a literary device, a figure of speech that quickly stimulates different ideas and associations using only a couple of words.
Example: David was being such a scrooge!. (Scrooge" is the allusion, and it refers to Charles Dicken's novel, A Christmas Carol. Scrooge was very greedy and unkind, which David was being compared to.)
3. Anaphora
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. (Contrast with epiphora and epistrophe.)
Example: I came, I saw, I conquered – Julius Caesar
4. Antaclasis
It is a rhetorical device in which a word is repeated and whose meaning changes in the second instance. Antanaclasis is a common type of pun.
Example:
Your argument is sound, nothing but sound. – Benjamin Franklin.
The word sound in the first instance means solid or reasonable. The second instance of sound means empty.
5. Anticlimax
Refers to a figure of speech in which statements gradually descend in order of importance.
Example:
She is a great writer, a mother and a good humorist.
6. Antiphrasis
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its normal meaning to create ironic humorous effect. From the Greek : anti "opposite" and phrasis, "diction".
Example:
She's so beautiful. She has an attractive long nose.
7. Antithesis
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
Example:
Many are called, but few are chosen.
8. Apostrophe
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.
Example:
"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times."
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1
9. Assonance
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Example:
"The crumbling thunder of seas" – Robert Louis Stevenson
10. Cataphora
Refers to a figure of speech where an earlier expression refers to or describes a forward expression. Cataphora is the opposite of anaphora, a reference forward as opposed to backward in the discourse.
Example:
After he had received his orders, the soldier left the barracks. (he is also a cataphoric reference to the soldier which is mentioned later in the discourse.
11. Chiasmus
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
Example:
He knowingly led and we followed blindly
12. Climax
Refers to a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance.
Example:
"There are three things that will endure: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love."
1 Corinthians 13:13
13. Dysphemism
Refers to the use of a harsh, more offensive word instead of one considered less harsh. Dysphemism is often contrasted with euphemism. Dysphemisms are generally used to shock or offend.
Example:
Snail mail for postal mail.
14. Ellipsis
Refers to the omission of a word or words. It refers to constructions in which words are left out of a sentence but the sentence can still be understood.
Example: Jan was born on . . . Street in Warsaw."
15. Euphemism
The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.
Example:
Going to the other side for death
Passed away for die
16. Hyperbole
An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
Example:
The bag weighed a ton.
17. Irony
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
Example:
His argument was as clear as mud.
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1. Alliteration
The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
Example: Sally sells seashells.
2. Allusion
The act of alluding is to make indirect reference. It is a literary device, a figure of speech that quickly stimulates different ideas and associations using only a couple of words.
Example: David was being such a scrooge!. (Scrooge" is the allusion, and it refers to Charles Dicken's novel, A Christmas Carol. Scrooge was very greedy and unkind, which David was being compared to.)
3. Anaphora
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. (Contrast with epiphora and epistrophe.)
Example: I came, I saw, I conquered – Julius Caesar
4. Antaclasis
It is a rhetorical device in which a word is repeated and whose meaning changes in the second instance. Antanaclasis is a common type of pun.
Example:
Your argument is sound, nothing but sound. – Benjamin Franklin.
The word sound in the first instance means solid or reasonable. The second instance of sound means empty.
5. Anticlimax
Refers to a figure of speech in which statements gradually descend in order of importance.
Example:
She is a great writer, a mother and a good humorist.
6. Antiphrasis
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its normal meaning to create ironic humorous effect. From the Greek : anti "opposite" and phrasis, "diction".
Example:
She's so beautiful. She has an attractive long nose.
7. Antithesis
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
Example:
Many are called, but few are chosen.
8. Apostrophe
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.
Example:
"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times."
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1
9. Assonance
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Example:
"The crumbling thunder of seas" – Robert Louis Stevenson
10. Cataphora
Refers to a figure of speech where an earlier expression refers to or describes a forward expression. Cataphora is the opposite of anaphora, a reference forward as opposed to backward in the discourse.
Example:
After he had received his orders, the soldier left the barracks. (he is also a cataphoric reference to the soldier which is mentioned later in the discourse.
11. Chiasmus
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
Example:
He knowingly led and we followed blindly
12. Climax
Refers to a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance.
Example:
"There are three things that will endure: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love."
1 Corinthians 13:13
13. Dysphemism
Refers to the use of a harsh, more offensive word instead of one considered less harsh. Dysphemism is often contrasted with euphemism. Dysphemisms are generally used to shock or offend.
Example:
Snail mail for postal mail.
14. Ellipsis
Refers to the omission of a word or words. It refers to constructions in which words are left out of a sentence but the sentence can still be understood.
Example: Jan was born on . . . Street in Warsaw."
15. Euphemism
The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.
Example:
Going to the other side for death
Passed away for die
16. Hyperbole
An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
Example:
The bag weighed a ton.
17. Irony
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
Example:
His argument was as clear as mud.
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18. Litotes
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
Example:
How are you? "Not bad" when you want to mean "Very good"
19. Merism
It is a figure of speech by which something is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its constituents or traits.
Example:
Flesh and bone. (Referring to the body).
20. Metaphor
An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
Example:
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
(William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7)
21. Metaplesis
It is a figure of speech in which reference is made to something by means of another thing that is remotely related to it, either through a causal relationship, or through another figure of speech.
Example:
A lead foot is driving behind me. (This refers to someone who drives fast. This metalepsis is achieved only through a cause and effect relationship. Lead is heavy and a heavy foot would press the accelerator, and this would cause the car to speed.)
22. Metonymy
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it's closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it.
Example:
Crown. (For the power of a king.)
The White House. (Referring to the American administration.)
23. Onomatopoeia
The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Example:
clap
murmur
24. Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
Example:
Dark light
Living dead
25. Paradox
A statement that appears to contradict itself.
Example:
Drowning in the fountain of eternal life
Deep down, you're really shallow.
26. Personification
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
Example:
"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"
said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
"Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?"
They arranged themselves at the window
and counted the steps of the sun,
and they both took root in the carpet
where the topaz tortoises run.
William Blake
(1757-1827)
27. Pun
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
Example:
"Atheism is a non-prophet institution." (The word "prophet" is put in place of its homophone "profit", altering the common phrase "non-profit institution")
28. Simile
A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
Example:
He fights like a lion.
29. Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole (for example, ABCs for alphabet) or the whole for a part ("England won the World Cup in 1966″).
Example:
A hundred head of cattle (using the part head to refer to the whole animal)
30. Tautology
A statement that says the same thing twice in different ways, or a statement that is unconditionally true by the way it is phrased.
Example:
Forward planning
It's a free gift.
31. Understatement
A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
Example:
"The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace."
(Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress")
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A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
Example:
How are you? "Not bad" when you want to mean "Very good"
19. Merism
It is a figure of speech by which something is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its constituents or traits.
Example:
Flesh and bone. (Referring to the body).
20. Metaphor
An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
Example:
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
(William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7)
21. Metaplesis
It is a figure of speech in which reference is made to something by means of another thing that is remotely related to it, either through a causal relationship, or through another figure of speech.
Example:
A lead foot is driving behind me. (This refers to someone who drives fast. This metalepsis is achieved only through a cause and effect relationship. Lead is heavy and a heavy foot would press the accelerator, and this would cause the car to speed.)
22. Metonymy
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it's closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it.
Example:
Crown. (For the power of a king.)
The White House. (Referring to the American administration.)
23. Onomatopoeia
The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Example:
clap
murmur
24. Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
Example:
Dark light
Living dead
25. Paradox
A statement that appears to contradict itself.
Example:
Drowning in the fountain of eternal life
Deep down, you're really shallow.
26. Personification
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
Example:
"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"
said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
"Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?"
They arranged themselves at the window
and counted the steps of the sun,
and they both took root in the carpet
where the topaz tortoises run.
William Blake
(1757-1827)
27. Pun
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
Example:
"Atheism is a non-prophet institution." (The word "prophet" is put in place of its homophone "profit", altering the common phrase "non-profit institution")
28. Simile
A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
Example:
He fights like a lion.
29. Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole (for example, ABCs for alphabet) or the whole for a part ("England won the World Cup in 1966″).
Example:
A hundred head of cattle (using the part head to refer to the whole animal)
30. Tautology
A statement that says the same thing twice in different ways, or a statement that is unconditionally true by the way it is phrased.
Example:
Forward planning
It's a free gift.
31. Understatement
A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
Example:
"The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace."
(Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress")
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The Scriblerus Club (1714-1745)
Name derived from scribler (a dull writer)
The nucleus of the club included the satirists Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. Other members were John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Henry St. John and Thomas Parnell.
-The group created the persona of Martinus Scriblerus, through whose writings they accomplished their satirical aims.
Important Works:
1. The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
2. The Dunciad (second part)
3. The Welsh Opera (a tribute to Scriblerians)
Name derived from scribler (a dull writer)
The nucleus of the club included the satirists Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. Other members were John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Henry St. John and Thomas Parnell.
-The group created the persona of Martinus Scriblerus, through whose writings they accomplished their satirical aims.
Important Works:
1. The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
2. The Dunciad (second part)
3. The Welsh Opera (a tribute to Scriblerians)
Kit-Cat Club
-Name derived from Christopher Catt (the inn keeper of the tavern where the writers used to meet) and his mutton pies known as Kit Cats
- Prominent Members
_William Congreve
_John Locke,
_Sir John Vanbrugh
_Joseph Addison
_Richard Steel
Politicians including
_Duke of Somerset
_Earl of Burlington
_Sir Robert Walpole.
-Name derived from Christopher Catt (the inn keeper of the tavern where the writers used to meet) and his mutton pies known as Kit Cats
- Prominent Members
_William Congreve
_John Locke,
_Sir John Vanbrugh
_Joseph Addison
_Richard Steel
Politicians including
_Duke of Somerset
_Earl of Burlington
_Sir Robert Walpole.
Graveyard Poets", also termed “Churchyard Poets” were a number of pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, 'skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms' elicited by the presence of the graveyard.
List:
Thomas Parnell
John Keats
Thomas Warton
Thomas Percy
Thomas Gray
Oliver Goldsmith
William Cowper
Christopher Smart
James MacPherson
Robert Blair
William Collins
Thomas Chatterton
Mark Akenside
Joseph Warton
Henry Kirke White
Edward Young
James Thomson
List:
Thomas Parnell
John Keats
Thomas Warton
Thomas Percy
Thomas Gray
Oliver Goldsmith
William Cowper
Christopher Smart
James MacPherson
Robert Blair
William Collins
Thomas Chatterton
Mark Akenside
Joseph Warton
Henry Kirke White
Edward Young
James Thomson
Important poems of the Graveyard Poets
📝 Thomas Parnell's A Night-Piece on Death (1721)
📝 Edward Young's Night Thoughts (1742)
📝 Blair's The Grave (1743)
📝 Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)
📝 Thomas Parnell's A Night-Piece on Death (1721)
📝 Edward Young's Night Thoughts (1742)
📝 Blair's The Grave (1743)
📝 Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)
Epigrams of Pope:
'Who shall decide when doctors disagree?'
' A little learning is a dangerous thing'
'And fools rush in where Angels fear to tread'
'To err is human to forgive divine '
'The proper study of mankind is man'
'The Right Divine of kings to govern wrong'
' A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;
An honest man's the noblest work of God'
'Who shall decide when doctors disagree?'
' A little learning is a dangerous thing'
'And fools rush in where Angels fear to tread'
'To err is human to forgive divine '
'The proper study of mankind is man'
'The Right Divine of kings to govern wrong'
' A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;
An honest man's the noblest work of God'
Opening Lines Part VII
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71. Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me. —GŸnter Grass, The Tin Drum (1959; trans. Ralph Manheim)
72. When Dick Gibson was a little boy he was not Dick Gibson. —Stanley Elkin, The Dick Gibson Show (1971)
73. Hiram Clegg, together with his wife Emma and four friends of the faith from Randolph Junction, were summoned by the Spirit and Mrs. Clara Collins, widow of the beloved Nazarene preacher Ely Collins, to West Condon on the weekend of the eighteenth and nineteenth of April, there to await the End of the World. —Robert Coover, The Origin of the Brunists(1966)
74. She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him. —Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902)
75. In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. —Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
76. "Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass. —Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond (1956)
77. He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)
78. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. —L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
79. On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen. —Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (1980)
80. Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. —William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own (1994)
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71. Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me. —GŸnter Grass, The Tin Drum (1959; trans. Ralph Manheim)
72. When Dick Gibson was a little boy he was not Dick Gibson. —Stanley Elkin, The Dick Gibson Show (1971)
73. Hiram Clegg, together with his wife Emma and four friends of the faith from Randolph Junction, were summoned by the Spirit and Mrs. Clara Collins, widow of the beloved Nazarene preacher Ely Collins, to West Condon on the weekend of the eighteenth and nineteenth of April, there to await the End of the World. —Robert Coover, The Origin of the Brunists(1966)
74. She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him. —Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902)
75. In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. —Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
76. "Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass. —Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond (1956)
77. He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)
78. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. —L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
79. On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen. —Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (1980)
80. Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. —William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own (1994)
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Negative Capability
A famous phrase used by Keats when writing to his brothers George and Thomas (21 Dec. 1817).
The relevant passage is: “I had not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously – I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the penetralium of Mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half- knowledge. This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no farther than this; that with a great Poet the sense of beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
Accept, therefore, the insight into beauty and be cautious of rationalization. In his Ode on a Grecian Urn Keats summarized part of his philosophy in this matter:
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
A famous phrase used by Keats when writing to his brothers George and Thomas (21 Dec. 1817).
The relevant passage is: “I had not a dispute, but a disquisition, with Dilke upon various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously – I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the penetralium of Mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half- knowledge. This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no farther than this; that with a great Poet the sense of beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
Accept, therefore, the insight into beauty and be cautious of rationalization. In his Ode on a Grecian Urn Keats summarized part of his philosophy in this matter:
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
1. What does ‘conceit’ refer to in concern to metaphysical poetry?
a) Far-fetched similes and metaphors
b) Showing off of learning
c) Sincerity to one theme
d) Use of same similes and metaphors at multiple points in a poem
2. One of Donne's 'Meditations' inspired the title of a famous novel set during the Spanish Civil War, written by which 20th century author?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) Jack London
c) Herman Melville
d) William Somerset Maugham
3. Who claimed, “Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging”?
a) Ben Jonson
b) S. Eliot
c) Samuel Johnson
d) John Dryden
4. Who said about Donne, “He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love”?
a) John Dryden
b) Ben Jonson
c) S. Eliot
d) Samuel Johnson
5. What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572?
a) The Massacre at Paris
b) The Massacre at Berlin
c) The Massacre at Rome
d) The Massacre at Copenhagen
6. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from?
a) King Lear
b)As You Like It
c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
d)The Life and Death of King John
a) Far-fetched similes and metaphors
b) Showing off of learning
c) Sincerity to one theme
d) Use of same similes and metaphors at multiple points in a poem
2. One of Donne's 'Meditations' inspired the title of a famous novel set during the Spanish Civil War, written by which 20th century author?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) Jack London
c) Herman Melville
d) William Somerset Maugham
3. Who claimed, “Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging”?
a) Ben Jonson
b) S. Eliot
c) Samuel Johnson
d) John Dryden
4. Who said about Donne, “He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love”?
a) John Dryden
b) Ben Jonson
c) S. Eliot
d) Samuel Johnson
5. What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572?
a) The Massacre at Paris
b) The Massacre at Berlin
c) The Massacre at Rome
d) The Massacre at Copenhagen
6. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from?
a) King Lear
b)As You Like It
c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
d)The Life and Death of King John
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1. What does ‘conceit’ refer to in concern to metaphysical poetry? a) Far-fetched similes and metaphors b) Showing off of learning c) Sincerity to one theme d) Use of same similes and metaphors at multiple points in a poem 2. One of Donne's 'Meditations'…
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1. What does ‘conceit’ refer to in concern to metaphysical poetry? a) Far-fetched similes and metaphors b) Showing off of learning c) Sincerity to one theme d) Use of same similes and metaphors at multiple points in a poem 2. One of Donne's 'Meditations'…
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2. a [ For Whom the Bell Tolls - It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.]
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4. a [although the term metaphysical poets was coined by Samuel Johnson]
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6. a
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Quiz 2
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1. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland?
a) the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
b) the Toleration Act
c) the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada
d) the Bishops' War
🔘 e) the Act of Union
2. Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century?
a) formal diplomatic relations with China
🔘 b) the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade
c) the American and French revolutions
d) the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity
e) the union of England and Wales with Scotland
3. What was "restored" in 1660?
🔘 a) the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
b) the dominance of the Tory Party
c) the "Book of Common Prayer"
d) toleration of religious dissidents
e) Irish independence.
4. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration?
a) Gay's Beggar's Opera
b) Butler's Hudibras
c) Fielding's Jonathan Wild
d) Pope's Dunciad
🔘 e) Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
5. The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties?
a) the Republicans and the Royalists
b) the Royalists and the Whigs
🔘 c) the Tories and the Whigs
d) the Royalists and the Tories
e) the Whigs and the Republicans
6. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688?
a) Elizabeth I
🔘 b) James II
c) George II
d) William and Mary
e) Anne
7. Who became the first "prime minister" of Great Britain in the reign of George II?
a) Henry St. John
b) Robert Harley
c) John Churchill
🔘 d) Robert Walpole
e) Matthew Prior
8. In the late seventeenth century, a "battle of the books" erupted between which two groups?
a) abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
b) round-earthers and flat-earthers
c) the Welsh and the Scots
🔘 d) champions of ancient and modern learning
e) Oxfordians and Baconians
9. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism?
🔘 a) All knowledge is derived from experience.
b) Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.
c) The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.
d) The sensory world is an illusion.
e) God is the center of an ordered and just universe.
10. Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh?
a) theoretical science
b) metaphysics
c) abstract logical deductions
d) a and b only
🔘 e) a, b, and c
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Answers to be posted in the morning
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1. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland?
a) the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
b) the Toleration Act
c) the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada
d) the Bishops' War
🔘 e) the Act of Union
2. Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century?
a) formal diplomatic relations with China
🔘 b) the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade
c) the American and French revolutions
d) the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity
e) the union of England and Wales with Scotland
3. What was "restored" in 1660?
🔘 a) the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
b) the dominance of the Tory Party
c) the "Book of Common Prayer"
d) toleration of religious dissidents
e) Irish independence.
4. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration?
a) Gay's Beggar's Opera
b) Butler's Hudibras
c) Fielding's Jonathan Wild
d) Pope's Dunciad
🔘 e) Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
5. The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties?
a) the Republicans and the Royalists
b) the Royalists and the Whigs
🔘 c) the Tories and the Whigs
d) the Royalists and the Tories
e) the Whigs and the Republicans
6. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688?
a) Elizabeth I
🔘 b) James II
c) George II
d) William and Mary
e) Anne
7. Who became the first "prime minister" of Great Britain in the reign of George II?
a) Henry St. John
b) Robert Harley
c) John Churchill
🔘 d) Robert Walpole
e) Matthew Prior
8. In the late seventeenth century, a "battle of the books" erupted between which two groups?
a) abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
b) round-earthers and flat-earthers
c) the Welsh and the Scots
🔘 d) champions of ancient and modern learning
e) Oxfordians and Baconians
9. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism?
🔘 a) All knowledge is derived from experience.
b) Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.
c) The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.
d) The sensory world is an illusion.
e) God is the center of an ordered and just universe.
10. Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh?
a) theoretical science
b) metaphysics
c) abstract logical deductions
d) a and b only
🔘 e) a, b, and c
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